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About our Fellows

The British Academy is a fellowship of around 1,400 leading national and international academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, the British Academy elects to its Fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication.

On election, all Fellows are assigned to one of 18 broad disciplinary Sections spanning the humanities and social sciences. Fellows may also become members of an additional Section, according to the range of their scholarly expertise.

Anthropology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social and the material; cultural production and cultural institutions; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; public broadcasting

Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa

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